The latest edition of the best-selling Canadian travel guidebook by journalist and author Bartley Kives

Sandwiched between North Dakota and Nunavut, Manitoba has never been the busiest chunk of tourism real estate in North America. To independent travellers, this is a good thing: Canada's undiscovered province offers uncrowded beaches, innumerable lakes and forests and unlikely cultural attractions, especially in the gritty/cool capital, Winnipeg.

First published in 2006, A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba immediately became an indispensable tool for visitors from abroad, Canadians passing through and Manitobans who simply wanted to get to know their own backyard. The new edition, revised for 2010, is an even more comprehensive guide to cities, towns and natural attractions in every corner of the province.

And forget what you think you know about the Canadian prairies – the only thing flat about Manitoba is the Trans-Canada Highway.

Praise for A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba:

"Instead of just relying on promotional material, Kives appears to have worn out tire rubber and shoe leather getting to know Manitoba’s cities, towns, backroads and wilderness areas. And instead of repeating clichés, Kives uses the same idiosyncratic, opinionated style that he employs in his Offroad columns."­– Bob Armstrong, Winnipeg Free Press
“An excellent handbook for pointing out the incredible array of places worth visiting that are all too often overlooked.”­– T. Keith Edmunds, Brandon Sun

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Lifelong Manitoban writes about travel, food and politics out of a century-old home in one of inner-city Winnipeg's most colourful 'hoods.
The forty something recovering music journalist juggles a day job as a city hall reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press with a weekend wilderness-travel column called Offroad. His work has also appeared on CBC Radio and in publications such as explore magazine, National Geographic Traveler and Western Living.